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Citizen Science as a Means for Increasing Public Engagement in Science

Overview of attention for article published in Science Communication, February 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
twitter
25 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
199 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Citizen Science as a Means for Increasing Public Engagement in Science
Published in
Science Communication, February 2017
DOI 10.1177/1075547017696165
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 198 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 20%
Researcher 34 17%
Student > Master 29 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 9%
Student > Bachelor 12 6%
Other 27 14%
Unknown 41 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 43 22%
Environmental Science 37 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Computer Science 5 3%
Other 32 16%
Unknown 46 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 May 2026.
All research outputs
#1,898,099
of 32,950,213 outputs
Outputs from Science Communication
#92
of 598 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,010
of 456,295 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science Communication
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,950,213 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 598 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 456,295 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 2 of them.